Singer-songwriter Michael Stipe has known Elton John for more than 35 years. In all that time, he had never once given Stipe’s personal phone number to anyone, especially a musician. Then he decided to break the rules. “He gave my number to Andrew Watt , who texted me and said, ‘I have an idea,’” Stipe recalls. The idea was for the opening title song of “ Rooster ,” the HBO dramedy starring Steve Carell as a college writer-in-residence who slides back into his own student-era restlessness. The

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